Cardano

Cardano appears to be a project that didn't meet its goals (especially when compared to alternatives). Research done by IOHK is interesting though.

Notes

• Cardano appears to be a trap for moderately smart people who don’t have time to read cryptocurrency whitepapers all day. Staking is nothing new, smart contracts are nothing new.

Links

• Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs)
• Charles Hoskinson | A Year in Review for Cardano in 2018
• Cardano Progress Update (Jan 2019)
• IOHK PlutusFest Keynote Address | CEO Charles Hoskinson
• IOHK PlutusFest 2018 | IOHK Language Architect - Manuel Chakravarty Interview
• Charles Hoskinson - The Road Ahead
• In Defense of Peer Review (2019) (Reddit)
• The IOHK Summit 2019 - Live Stream
• New Shelley formal specifications complete (2019)
• Cardano Roadmap
• Plutus Platform - Plutus language implementation and tools.
• Enter the Hydra: scaling distributed ledgers, the evidence-based way (2020)
• Formal Models for Ledger Rules - Formal specification and executable model of the ledger rules introduced by the Shelley release.
• cardano-node - Integration of the ledger, consensus, networking and node shell repositories. Core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.
• Ogmios - WebSocket JSON/RPC bridge for Cardano. (Code)
• Cardano Ops - NixOps deployment configuration for IOHK/Cardano devops.
• Reasons ADA could fail (2021)
• Getting Started Developing on Cardano (2021)
• Charles Hoskinson Surprise AMA March 27, 2021
• CNFT - Digital Token Platform. Using Cardano.
• Goguen Smart Contracts - Cardano Roadmap
• Daedalus - Open source wallet for ada, built to grow with the Cardano blockchain.
• Yoroi - Light Wallet for Cardano.
• Cardano PoolTool - Comprehensive staking statistics for Cardano on the web.
• Is Cardano effectively ETH2.0 but with an earlier release date? (2021)
• Cardano Updates
• Guide: How to Build a Cardano Stake Pool
• Essential Cardano list
• Charles Hoskinson: Cardano (2021)
• Cardano DB Sync - Component that follows the Cardano chain and stores blocks and transactions in PostgreSQL.
• Guide to Cardano
• Plutus Pioneer Program
• Functional smart contracts on Cardano (2020)
• Cardano Hydra Explained (2021)
• Cardano Community Discord
• Cardano’s ledger approach and ‘concurrency’ explained (2021)
• Cardano's UTXO model can only make Defi work with major tradeoffs (2021)
• Concurrency, State, & Cardano (2021) (Reddit)
• Cardano Concurrency (MinSwap issue) (2021)
• Charles Hoskinson on Cardano Smart Contracts (2021)
• Cardano Wallet - HTTP server & command-line for managing UTxOs and HD wallets in Cardano.
• Cardano validators explained (2021)
• Introduction to the Cardano blockchain ledger and smart contracts
• Awesome Plutus
• Cardano Serialization Lib - Library for serialization & deserialization of data structures used in Cardano's Haskell implementation of Shelley along with useful utility functions.
• cardano-base - Code used throughout the Cardano eco-system.
• Oura - Tail of Cardano.
• Pallas - Rust-native building blocks for the Cardano blockchain ecosystem.
• Kupo - Fast, lightweight & configurable chain-index for Cardano.
• PyCardano - Lightweight Cardano library in Python.
• Making offline Cardano transactions (2022)
• Cardano Developer Portal (Code)
• Ouroboros-Network - Implementation of the Ouroboros family of consensus algorithms, with its networking support.
• AIKEN - Cardano smart contract language and toolchain.
• Plutus Application Framework - Framework for developing distributed applications using the Cardano blockchain.
• Plutarch - Typed eDSL in Haskell for writing efficient Plutus Core validators.